Iraq is
a great example of the Republican state of amnesia. Iraq is imploding much like
Bosnia did in the 1990’s. A brutal dictator was vanquished in each and in his
place warring factions went after each other and all their grudges and hatreds
that had been bottled up for years overflowed in massive and destructive
violence. Once again Pandora was allowed out of the box.
The
difference between Bosnia and Iraq is that the Iraqi extremist not only want to
kill each other, but they want to go after the heathens better known as the
United States of America. The Bosnians had no global plans; they only wanted to
act locally, and that is what they did quite successfully.
My right-wing
friends seem to have forgotten the lessons of Bosnia and its impact on its
neighbors when they decided to invade a stable if not grotesquely ruthless
Iraq. They did not think that the Iraqi extremists hatred for the west and what
we stand for such as freedom (if we think that you deserve it) or independence
(only if you do it our way) was such a good thing since we had put such a
vicious dictator in power to protect America’s interests in the middle east and
attack our sworn enemy: Iran.
These
same right-wingers don’t like to let facts get in the way of their rants
against Democrats. Let’s look at some facts: the Republicans were in power when
3,000 people died in the World Trade Center, a Republican President landed on
an aircraft carrier and said mission accomplished as 4,500 American soldiers
died in Iraq and Afghanistan, but none of this should get in the way of their
present attacks on Democrats.
The
Republicans left a mess in the Middle East and expect the Democrats to clean it
up all the while pretending that there was nothing wrong with the actions that
tore Iraq apart and opened the way for al-Qaida to set up training centers that
were once housed in Afghanistan. Bully for the right-wingers. They are like the
neighbor kid that comes to your house and helps destroy your son’s or
daughter’s room then leaves the mess for someone else to clean up.
More
than that. Each time the Democrats take care of business in regards to
al-Qaida, the Republicans poo-poo it. They act as if the killing of Osama bin
Laden was no big deal; this is after a Republican president said that the man who
organized the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11 was not important enough to
apprehend, then, this same President went off on a foreign adventure in Iraq
that more than ten years later is still in shambles.
These
same right-wingers pretended it was not essential to kill Anwar al-Awlaki an
American setting himself up to be the next bin Laden. Or acknowledge the
significance of the latest capture of the organizer of the Benghazi attacks,
Abu Ahmed Khattala. It is more vital to spend millions of dollars to see that
there is no hidden conspiracy in regards to the Benghazi attacks.
It is
the Republicans’ need to live in a state of amnesia and bring along fellow
amnesiacs that is most frightening. As the world gets more complicated, these
right-wingers think that we can go back to a time when America could flex its
muscles and the rest of the world would flinch. This is no longer the case,
however, this won’t stop them from using present and past events to gin up
political indignation without having a solution outside of putting more
American troops at risk.
Republicans
keep pretending that your simplistic and childish world views will save us, and
I’ll pretend that you don’t love Muslim terrorists because you believe they will
provide the cover needed so that you can take control of this country. Muslim
terrorists just what the Republican doctor ordered for the 2014 election cycle.
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